>>> All we need now is for Warp to pop up and tell me that if only I used 
>>> a *real* programming environment like VisualStudio C++, I would only 
>>> need to click on a button and everything would instantly work right...
>>
>> Or Scott to pop up and tell you to just use a .net language and be 
>> done with COM altogether.
> 
> Or both! Use a .NET language and tell it to interface itself to COM. ;-)

What a wonderful idea! Instead of having a compiled Haskell program that 
requires you to install 10MB of GTK+ libraries before it will run, you 
can have an interpretted .NET program which requires you to install 
400MB of libraries before it will run. Everybody wins...

>> http://www.ffconsultancy.com/dotnet/fsharp/rule30/code/1/rule30.fs
> 
> Sweet. I haven't taken the time to figure out how they unify the 
> functional with all the stateful OO libraries.

The real world is stateful. Almost all functional languages must have a 
strategy for dealing with real-world state. Just apply the same 
technique (whatever it is) to dealing with stateful APIs.

The tricky part is usually the type system...

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